The 1.2-Megabase Genome Sequence of Mimivirus

By Didier Raoult, S. Audic, C. Robert, Chantal Abergel, P. Renesto, Hiroyuki Ogata, B. La Scola, M. Suzan, Jean-Michel Claverie. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Plant Science

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Size doesn’t matter: towards a more inclusive philosophy of biology (2007, background): “…zone between living and non-living things (or organisms and chemicals), but their evolutionary history, involvement with prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and some surprising biological capacities (Luria et al. 1978; Raoult et al. 2004; Villarreal 2004a) make it difficult to dismiss them as non-living.”
Exploring nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses in Tara Oceans microbial metagenomes (2013, background): “The prototype of such large viruses, also referred to as giruses (Claverie et al., 2006), is the amoeba-infecting Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus with a 0.75-mm virion particle and 1.18-Mb genome (Raoult et al., 2004).”
The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses (2009, background): “An even more remarkable example of deep evolutionary ancestry concerns the giant mimiviruses of amoeba, a discovery that rejuvenated studies of DNA virus origins (Raoult et al. 2004; Claverie 2006).”
Protein networks in disease. (2008, background): “, even the largest viral genomes encode no more than 1000 proteins (Raoult et al. 2004), versus the more than 20,000 that must be considered in higher eukaryotes.”
Pathogenic and opportunistic free-living amoebae: Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris, Naegleria fowleri, and Sappinia diploidea. (2007, background): “Recently, a mimivirus, a virus about the size of a small bacterium with a 1.2-megabase genome, was discovered in A. polyphaga (Raoult et al., 2004).”
The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells (2006, background): “With regard to the cell degeneration hypothesis, let us consider the NCLDV, the class of large viruses to which the cell degeneration concept might most readily apply and, indeed, was, in the wake of the discovery of the giant mimivirus [50-52].”
Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria (2011, background): “Like bacterial genomes, most viral genomes remain gene dense over their entire size range; in particular, the largest known viral genomes — of mimiviral strains — have a considerable overlap with the reduced genomes of several intracellular bacteria in terms of coding density and gene coun”